Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood

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Title: Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
Author: J. M. Barrie
Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #14961]
Language: English
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SENTIMENTAL TOMMY
THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD
BY J. M. BARRIE
AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE MINISTER," "A WINDOW IN THRUMS," ETC.
1896SENTIMENTAL TOMMY
THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOODCHAPTER I
TOMMY CONTRIVES TO KEEP ONE OUT
The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair, and he was in sexless garments, which were all he
had, and he was five, and so though we are looking at him, we must do it sideways, lest he sit down hurriedly to hide
them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was
making love to them, was already his, except when he smiled at one of his pretty thoughts or stopped at an open door to
sniff a potful. On his way up and down the stair he often paused to sniff, but he never asked for anything; his mother had
warned him against it, and he carried out her injunction with almost unnecessary ...